Free to use assets for your games. Watch licencing details, of course. Also check out our own Dogfood Studio Assets Collection
Game UI Examples
- GameUIDatabase – Large database of Game UI screenshots
- InterfaceInGame – Dialogues, credits, opening screens and UI examples
Game Art / Sprites
- Open Game Art – Start your search with this one. Various open licences, follow them accordingly.
- Pixabay – Not all CC0, watch the license
- Unsplash
General Assets
- Unity Asset Store – Various licenses, watch the license. Not completely free, need to create an Unity account.
- Itch.io hosted assets
- Reddit/r/gameassets – Links to mixed sources, watch for licenses, use virustotal.com to check files on viruses.
3D Models
- Kenney – Great collection of kit bashing material
- Turbosquid – Not all CC0 - watch the license
- Sketchfab – Not all CC0 - watch the license
- Blendswap – Models
- Poly Haven – Models
- Quaternius – Models
Materials and Textures
Music and SFX
- Musopen – Music, Not all CC0, watch the license
- Teknoaxe – Music, CC BY (Attribution)
- Abstraction Music – Music, Attribution including url, not all free, watch license
- Fesliyan Studios – Free for non-commercial
- Freesound – Sounds, Not all CC0, watch the license
- Sonniss – Sounds
Animation
- Mixamo – Not completely free, need to create an Adobe ID, giving them data
Disclaimer on licensing and copyright
Free to use assets for your games.
A lot of Creative Commons 0 (CC0) for which you don’t need to do anything in return. It’s still nice to give credit of course. But there are also some with a CC BY license which requires to give credit. Use your credits screen in your game to give credit. Some are CC BY-SA which requires credit and sharing your work with the same license. Some of the provided sources also offer paid assets.
On some aggregate sites like for example Pixabay, anyone can post any picture. The uploader might not have the rights to the image. If you see something recognisable like Disney figures or other big brands, don’t use it.